History of Australia

The first people to arrive on Australia around 40,000 years ago are known as

• the Aborigines

• the Indigenous people

• Melanesians

• Micronesians

Ancient Aborigines were

• nomadic hunter gatherers

• nomadic sailors

• sedentary farmers

• sedentary hunters

The first Aborigines arrived from

• New Zealand

• southeast Asia

• Great Britain

• Holland

Aborigines invented this tool for hunting

• didgeridoo

• bow & arrow

• boomerang

• axe

Australia was claimed by Captain James Cook to be part of which empire?

• French

• Spanish

• Dutch

• British

Initially, Great Britain used Australia as which type of colony?

• Agricultural

• Naval Base

• Mercantile

• Convict

Which event led to an increase in European colonists and terrible treatment of the Aborigines?

• World War I

• Independence movements in South America

• the Gold Rush

• the end of the north Atlantic slave trade

Australia gained independence from Great Britain in which year?

• 1900

• 1901

• 1902

• 1903

During which period of Australia's history did Australians take Aborigine children from their families to assimilate them into Australian society?

• Stolen Generation

• Gold Rush

• World War I

• World War II

Due to many years of discrimination Aborigines currently struggle with (select more than one answer)

• poor health

• lower literacy rates

• unemployment

• loss of native languages